Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 19, 1977, Docket No. 76-R2D3-1050. Paul G. Smith, Administrative Law Judge.
For App: Craig W. Porter, Safety Director. For DIS: C.Duane Niesen, CSE.
Trench Shoring and Sloping, Mitigating Factors in Penalty Reduction. A serious violation of 1541(a) was affirmed. But the $700 proposed penalty was reduced to $200.
"In the case at hand, two men were working outside the shored portion of a seven-foot deep trench while placing a crane lowered section of concrete pipe. An experienced foreman, exercising his own judgment, decided it was more dangerous to keep the shores in place fearing that they could actu
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